Mobility solutions for the elderly

PHOTO: Hedda Mittner

When we built our home more than 20 years ago, I never thought the stairs would become a problem. Truth be told, I didn’t even think I would still be here,” chuckles 84-year-old Bryan Burnside, who lives in Hermanus Heights with his wife, Megan. The couple recently had a private Lifta home lift installed in their house, and they could not be more pleased with the results.

“We had started looking at single-storey properties but couldn’t find one we liked as much as our present home,” says Bryan, which is why they were overjoyed to find that there was a solution to hand.

“The guys from Lifta were amazing and it took only two weeks from the day I first contacted them. The installation was completed in one and a half days and the technicians worked in a meticulous manner – no fuss and no mess.”

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